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<p>Much worse than D3 too...</p>
Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:25:15 +0000PHOENIXZEROcomment 285790 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Maxis Details SimCity Update Plans, Ignores Video About ...http://gamepolitics.com/2013/03/15/maxis-details-simcity-update-plans-ignores-video-about-offline-play#comment-285777
<p>As a father of 3 kids (the oldest and youngest being 12 and 8 year old boys) knowing the truth of a situation and confronting them with who broke or did what...they will stare you in the face and stick to a lie thinking they may get away with it, pointing the finger at anyone and anything they can. &nbsp;I can understand brothers blaming eachother&nbsp;and learning right from wrong as they grow up...but sadly a company full of adults can&#39;t seem to grasp this basic idea and believes we are all idiots.</p>
Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:52:14 +0000Zencomment 285777 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Maxis Details SimCity Update Plans, Ignores Video About ...http://gamepolitics.com/2013/03/15/maxis-details-simcity-update-plans-ignores-video-about-offline-play#comment-285774
<p>What *I* can&#39;t believe is that they&#39;re sticking with their lies, even against numerous videos, mods, experiments, words of hundreds if not thousands of people... When do we start calling it dementia?</p>
Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:23:53 +0000DorthLouscomment 285774 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Maxis Details SimCity Update Plans, Ignores Video About ...http://gamepolitics.com/2013/03/15/maxis-details-simcity-update-plans-ignores-video-about-offline-play#comment-285765
<p>I actually read a 2-star review by the Guardian today, which speaks negatively of the traffic and fakeness:</p>
<p><em>These online headaches aren&#39;t the end of SimCity&#39;s problems. The simulation itself is flawed in a number of ways, most notably the traffic. If you have a wide, empty freeway, cars will ignore it in favour of a one-lane dirt road, just because it&#39;s a shorter route to their destination &ndash; even if it&#39;s jammed with traffic. Maxis have promised to fix this in a patch, but it&#39;s bewildering how it made it into the game in the first place.</em></p>
<p><em>We loved SimCity for the first few hours, but the compulsion soon gave way to frustration.</em></p>
<p><em>The simulation promises more than it delivers, and you feel perpetually boxed-in by the meagre city sizes. The social features are interesting, but we&#39;d rather have the ability to save our game, play offline, and not have to worry about server downtime. The regional multiplayer really should be an optional aside to a standard single-player mode.</em></p>
<p><em>There&#39;s fun to be had here, but it doesn&#39;t last. The low-level simulation looks impressive when you see hundreds of cars whizzing around your streets, <strong>but it&#39;s all an illusion</strong>. When they&#39;re returning from work, your sims will drive to the nearest empty house; the same AI process that controls sewage as it&#39;s sucked down your streets to the nearest outflow pipe.</em></p>
<p>Having persistent job and home locations is the entire point of adding this detail - take that out and fake it, and instead of a feature, you have a waste of computing space just to make the game look shinier.</p>
Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:55:18 +0000Constercomment 285765 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Maxis Details SimCity Update Plans, Ignores Video About ...http://gamepolitics.com/2013/03/15/maxis-details-simcity-update-plans-ignores-video-about-offline-play#comment-285764
<p>I still can&#39;t believe this game released with so many fatal (and easily discovered) flaws.</p>
Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:40:16 +0000Craig R.comment 285764 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Maxis Details SimCity Update Plans, Ignores Video About ...http://gamepolitics.com/2013/03/15/maxis-details-simcity-update-plans-ignores-video-about-offline-play#comment-285756
<p>Hey look, it&#39;s the new Diablo 3!</p>
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:04:50 +0000Mr.Tastixcomment 285756 at http://gamepolitics.comRe: Maxis Details SimCity Update Plans, Ignores Video About ...http://gamepolitics.com/2013/03/15/maxis-details-simcity-update-plans-ignores-video-about-offline-play#comment-285749
<p>Here&#39;s a thought: don&#39;t release a game you&#39;re clearly not done developing.</p>
<p>Here&#39;s another thought: don&#39;t lie to us.&nbsp; We will find you out.&nbsp; Every.&nbsp; Single.&nbsp; Time.</p>
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<p>Andrew Eisen</p>
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:34:00 +0000Andrew Eisencomment 285749 at http://gamepolitics.com